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Show "officer tells ; of balloon trip Navaf Officers Lost to the World for Twenty-Nino Days. ARE FOUND BY AN INDIAN Wandered Four Days In the Dense Woods and Were on Verge of Death When Rescued Thrllllno Story of Trip Told by an Officer. Mnttlce, Ont. Tlio fhrco American nnvnl ofllcers, Lleuts. Illnton, Furrull and Kloor, who nbnndoncd their wrecked hnlloon near Mooso Factory on tlio slioro of James bay on Dec. 14, arrived safely here. Tlio following follow-ing story of the balloon trip of tho airmen was told by Lieut. Stephen Farrell : Lieut. Farrcll's story of the flight and wanderings of the trio begins with the morning hours In Itockaway naval air station on December IB and goes on through the flight, tho landing, and up to the meeting with tho Indian at Mooso Factory who saved their lives. "It was Just an ordinary balloon hop," Farrell began. "It was for training. train-ing. Illnton told mo after wo left that the gas In the balloon was ten days old, .stale and impure. "Illnton called me up at about twenty twen-ty minutes to 12 (December 13) and told mo I could come on flight If 1 wanted to. No special orders aro needed. Wo just got permission from Commander Cummlngs of the post and Executive Oflleor Douglas. "I am senior olllccr of tho three, but Kloor was In command of tho flight, as ho Is n balloon officer and 1 am n gunnery oillccr. I have been In aviation for three years and havo flown In every kind of aircraft. Wo left at 1 p. m. Left With Four Pigeons. "Wo had four pigeons; wo let tho first one go with a message for the Brooklyn navy yard. "Illnton nml Kloor had heavy underwear un-derwear and uniforms under their flying fly-ing suits. I had only the underwear and tho flying suit. I had a grip with my uniform and some other things In It. We had eight sandwiches and two thermos bottles of hot coffee. Nono of tlio underwear was electrically heated. "Wo expected to land next morning morn-ing In upper Now Yorlt Htnto. Wo Juul no tunps or charts except a railroad map of tlio Canndlan Quebec Central line, which I bought. Wo had three chances to land before we did. Wo did stop once at Wells, N. 1. "We made fast to a tree near a light. It was lu a window of a farmhouse. farm-house. A man came nlong and we asked him where we were. Ho told us, but he could not say what big town vo were near. Kioor Qame to Go On. "Wo cast looao and went up again. It rained and blow during the night. We could imvo landed at Ottawa at 11 p. m. We saw the lights of a big city. Dut Kloor is Just u kid and ho was enthusiastic about n long flight. we au agreed that wo ought to do a decent flight. There hud been rain from Wells on. "Tlio wind was north by west. Thnt night It blew hard and rained. There vns no sign of civilization. Hut wo thought it would bo all right lu tho liornlng. At daylight we saw only for- Ists. The rain had calmed down. there were low clouds and fog. MTho rain stopped at 8 n. in. (Do- Imher 1-1). We ate all our food dur- V,' the night. We hnd two packages I cigarettes and one box of inntclie, It you cannot smoke In a hydrogen tllooii. Wo realized we were In bad t morning." t 11 a. m. tho sun came out and ted up the gas In the balloon; It makes the gas expand and sends balloon up. , Vc woro lighting to keep In tho All we saw was trees, lakes, and I W. It was about i :ao p. ni. tlmt B jaw a shuck in tho woods. At I 1 we thought It wos a shack. We I In doubt about this until wo 1 n dog bark, fl tttook bearings with tho compass o shock and the place where tho Barked. We decided to land. We llln low clouds about 1,000 feet I Tho wind was north by west, lln had been heating up our hug M I'e began to go up. We reached M CQt' U ,nkes n loaK tlrnu to go f3 Uiat height. ;?ll II Make a Bad I .inrfinn -mt i ..-.ny, jm I clouds woro below us and $3 Wo BOt down nIl0ut two jfea Jt ws n bad landing and wo My tetty badly shaken up. We HM t hurt or thrown out, but the $P Iwas smashed ugalnst tho Mja IMIoon caught between tho glSj Vb had taken the pigeons Into ijP Itt to protect them from tho mm II Usually they rldo In a cago Bfflj lllo of the basket. Tho weath-JKpfl weath-JKpfl ll'iir find nearly freezing. MEM I too of us stepped out of tho B 1 our flying clothes. I took gH I Vo woro soaking wet. Kloor terja ! geon cage. Wo started oft' Hl I PC paco to get whero tho WWm Wo did not stop to In-lF In-lF Uilloon. From tho bearings I Jit balloon wo figured tho kW I mtli by east from us. -rnrt on Long Trek. tod through tho forest on I carried my grip for ono i day. Wo went on until dark and made a fire. I smoked two cigarettes whllo wo rested; so did Kloor. Illnton Illn-ton did not smoke. "Wo did not cat that day; wo carried car-ried tho pigeons until tho next day. There was somo snow on tho ground, so wo got a lot of plno brush to lie on and I picked a lot of rotten wood with my penknife. Wo had no firearms fire-arms only tho knife and the box of matches. "Illnton went on u little to find a stream. While ho was gono ho laid off Ills flying suit to mako better head-way head-way and he could not find It on ids way bnck. "That night I slept next to Hlnton. Ho was next to tho fire. I was on tho outside. Kloor lay oft to one side and slept. We got on fine together In tho forest. Illnton nnd I didn't sleep. Wo got up nt daylight. They Eat First Pigeon. "Wo nte a pigeon that morning, December De-cember 15. We cleaned n pigeon and cooked It. We divided it in tlireq parts, a ".ouple of tnouthfuls apiece. Wo drank water out of moose tracks and holes in tho ground. That Is what probably mado mo sick tho next day. Wo started off, I carrying my grip. "Wo canio to a creek that day (tlio Indians call this stream tho Nesco-lingu). Nesco-lingu). Illnton was leading and kept moving too far to tho west. "I proposed to him to go southeast. In 30 minutes we got to the -creek, which was not frozen over, so wo had to follow tho bank. Wo camped again In good shnpe. I, for one, was not very hungry, but wo were cold when sa Htopped walking. "Wo had made a fire and rested at noon, but wo did not eat In order to conserve food. We argued about where wo were. I figured It somewhere some-where In tho woods in Canada, but wusn't sure. How They Were Garbed. "At thnt tlmo I was still In my flying suit, Illnton in uniform nnd Kloor In uniform nnd flying suit. We nil woro flying boots. My grip kept getting foul of trees, so I threw It nwny nt ten o'clock, but took enro to put It In a tree. Heforc that I got my good English whoos out of the grip and put them on and threw away my Hying boots, which were pretty near gone. "I did not irinke moro tlmn four miles the first day nor more than seven sev-en or eight the second day. Our night camp was on the creek. We did not ent. During the day we nil nibbled n bit of a kind of moss we found growing grow-ing around. "We woro not cheerful. We began to dread that this dog barking proposition prop-osition was a kind of phoney. There were so many noises. I figure now It was a wolf barking. Wo miw a lot of wolf trucks. Youngest Flyer Prays. "Kloor told us he had been praying not out loud, hut Just to himself. I'm not much on religion; I didn't pray. No more than I mado a proposition propo-sition they should dlno off me. "Illnton and I discussed our course while Kloor was praying. Wo had to admit we were In a pretty serious Jam and felt pretty blue. Hut when we quit we had a hunch thnt tlio third day was going to bo lucky. "We nto tho second pigeon nnd killed the other ono thn marnlmr nt Mm i,i,..i ... .., tt , vllu i1Uiu day December 10. Kloor put itlio dead pigeon in Ids pocket. Wo did tills to do away with tho cage. "During the night Hlnton nnd Kloor got their feet In the lire. Now their flyJng shoes were burned und they had to throw them nwny and wnlk In uniform uni-form boots. My shoes were in tho best shupe. Hikers Growing Weak. "Wo woro all growing weak and fell a lot In holes nnd over trees. Hlnton was very weak. I felt llko vomiting. Hlnton was nauseated, Ids stomach was very bad, hut our hends were as clear as they are right now. "If wo had had u definite object we could hnvo gone fifty or a hundred miles without so much distress. We saw so much of the same sort of woods that it appeared wo woro not going anywhere. Hut wo were not going In circles because wo were steered by tho compass zigzagging through the wood. That counted ugainst us. "I bognn to lag behind pretty much and Hlnton suggested thnt I talco off my flying suit. I did, and wnlked In my underclothing tho rest of tho trip. "Illnton wrapped my suit around him ns a sort of blanket Just before noon I had a nasty fall over a tree trunk Into a hole three feet deep. I was bruised und scratched but I got up alone. Hunch Falls to Help Out. "Wo didn't ent at noon and mado fire and warmed up and started off ngnln all together. Wo wero pretty blue when wo camped the third night. Our hunch nbout tho third being tho lucky day fllvvered. "Hlnton said, 'Let's write some letters let-ters and put them In our pockets,' but I said, 'No, we'll havo plenty of tlmo to do that.' "Hlnton could hnrdly hold his head up. It was very cold and It sure wus our worst night. Wo slept again with Hlnton nenr the fire and me on tho tmtslde. I had tho flying suit on, but It was too cold to Ho still, and I would get up often. "When I did Hlnton did too, nnd we would both sit-near tho flro for n while. Kloor slept fine, nlraost In tho lire. He kept getting his feet In the flro and wo would have to pull them out. "Next morning wo kidded tho kid that's what wo called Kloor and told him ho hnd been hogging the flro. Hlnton had the matches, because ho knows how to light n fire. Wo wcro careful with the mutches. We would go stiff when It took Hlnton two mntcnes to get the Are going. Trio In Bad Shape. "Kloor had lots of pep after his night's sleep and Illnton was Jo bad shape. I was a bit better off than Illnton, but not much. We stnrtcd off without food along the bonk of tho creek. I hnd a hunch thut night might hnvo frozen up the creek and I left them to go down und try It out." xno uisuinco covered that nfternoon wns not more thnn three miles. Next 1 day (Thursday) almost the sumo story was repeated nt nightfall, their distance dis-tance from the "hypothetical" village being still as undetermined as when they mado their landing. Friday proved to be tho lucky day. In tho morning Tom Marks, a Creo Indian trapper, who was Inspecting his traps on the outskirts of the settlement set-tlement of Mooso Factory, an Island In the bottom of Jnmes bny, noticed tracks which he Judged to have been made by three white men. Ills curiosity curi-osity getting thu better of the native ! Indian timidity In the presence of tin unusual, Marks followed up thu track: until early In tho nfternoon he cairn upon tho three balloonlsts. Kloor'a Story of Trip. "The first days out wero tho worst,' said Lieutenant Kloor, describing theli experiences. "We hnd proctlced walk lug with snowshoes nt Moose Factory while wo were there and thought wc wero experts with them, but after going go-ing a day on tho trnll changed our minds. It wns quite wtormy, too, and the first week wo were out wo encountered en-countered three severe blizzards. "On Sunday a week ago It became so bud wo wero compelled to retrace our steps for more than a mile. Wo also found that the dogs we had with us were Inndequato for the load we ero carrying and had to send back for more. The weather, however, was not very cold. Wo had lota of mooso meat to ent and I think wo are all feeling fine." "What scientific values to bo derived de-rived from your trip?" was asked. "Tho main scientific fnct demonstrated," demon-strated," replied Kloor, "Is thut a balloon of 35,000 cubic feet capacity can remain In tho ulr for moro than twelvo hours. Wo wero In tho nlr for twenty-five hours and could hnvo remained thero longer. Further than thnt I think nothing ought to be said until we report to our superiors." Dogs Hall the Arrival. Kloor, n blue-eyed, ruddy young fellow fel-low who looked to bo lu tho pink of condition, wns the first to arrive. Ho caino whirling nround tho bend of tho ' Mlssnnnlbl Into the towa, riding on tho d.og sled, with Sum Salnsbury.i Toronto explorer, who had gone to, meet him. "I feel fine. Wo'ro nil nil right. All f I ask Is thut I got to a Mr"," he sola. ' rrtlmi I m. - m.,w -. , .- " pntlon, the young Indy climbed up or , RHie gate nnd scrambled Into the saddle- ! "Khun Hryce swung the pony broadside J- sfovthV gate. Two hour? of his vnluu- 'pbh tlmo did he give thnt morning i before the en 1 1 of duty brought him hiiVK.to the house and his neglected ' cropof carrots. Wllcn he suggested tncffuUy, however, thnt It wns-f ' jsjl necessary that his guest and Mijf 1 separate, a difficulty arose. Shlr'N Sumnor refused point blank to leave the premises. She liked Uryee for hi a hair and because ho had been so kind I to her; she wns n stranger In Sequoia, I nnd now thut she had found an agree- I able companion, It wns far from her - -r ' 1 |